Briefings containing "Performance Artist"
Ana Mendieta—Performance Artist
Her 1998 dissertation, "Ana Mendieta: The Iowa Years. A Critical Study, 1969 through 1977," brought to light critical information about Mendietas formative influences and the impact of the Intermedia education she received at the University of Iowa. Raquelín Mendieta is the artists sister, administrator of her estate, and an artist. As teenagers, Raquelín and Ana were brought to Iowa in 1961 as part of Operation Peter Pan, which sent approximately 14,000 Cuban children to the United States without their parents or extended families.
http://www.desmoinesartcenter.org/exhibitions/ex_past/ex_past_mendieta...
Marcel Marceau—Performance Artist
Marcel Marceau dead at age 83 THE French mime artist Marcel Marceau has died at the age of 83, one of his children has told Agence France-Presse. Marceau, whose real name was Marcel Mangel, was one of the best loved exponents of the art of mime in the world. He gained fame in 1947 for his creation of Bip, a sad, white-faced clown in a striped jumper and a battered silk opera hat. In 1978 he founded the Ecole de Mimodrame in Paris.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=343_1190539233&c=1
Reverend Billy—performance artist
Reverend Billy is Bill Talen, a seasoned performance artist who moved from San Francisco to NYC in the late '90s — and if the prospect of an hour or two of typical lefty agitprop leaves you dry, don't worry.
http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/10/15/reverend-billy-wants-you-to-sto...
David Antin—artist
David Antin is a poet, critic, and performance artist. His background includes graduate work in linguistics at New York University. He has pursued a career as a poet since 1955 and that of an art critic since 1964. He has served as Educational Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and was Director of the UC-San Diego Mandeville Gallery, where he assembled exhibitions by artists Alex Katz, Tom Wesselman, and others.
http://www.amazon.ca/Conversation-David-Antin/dp/1887123555
Bruce Barber—Canadian Author and Artist
An Interview with Bruce Barber and Katherine Grant Within the parameters of "littoral art" and "the art of giving," Halifax, Nova Scotia-based artist, ...
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Candy Barr—Performance Artist
Candy Barr is among the inductees in the Hall of Fame of Exotic World Burlesque Museum, Helendale, California, halfway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_Barr
Mark Pauline—Performance Artist
Mark Pauline is the guiding intelligence behind Survival Research Laboratories, a group specializing in darkly satirical performances using deadly homemade robots.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1510/is_n63/ai_7675137/print
Joseph Grimaldi—Performance Artist
Joseph Grimaldi was one of the greatest English pantomimes. His father was Giuseppit Grimaldi (died 1788), an Italian dancing master and pantomimist. Joseph's stage debut was at 3 years old in a dance at Sadler's Wells, London's famous variety theater. Grimaldi never performed in a circus ring, but spent most of his life performing in full-length pantomimes. He had the most to do with the development of the pantomime character of Clown. He also was the one to give clowns their most enduring nickname, "Joey." Grimaldi used a substantial amount of color to his mouth, cheeks, and eyebrows over his painted white face. The most striking aspect of his makeup were the large red triangles. His image was followed closely for the next 50 years by most British clowns. Grimaldi is known for being a master in the use of expressions of the body and face, unique sense of comic timing, imaginative byplay, and his overall comic abilities.
http://www.theclownmuseum.org/inductees/90induct.html
Calamity Jane—Performance Artist
Dressed in buckskin, Calamity Jane was also well-known for her hard-drinking. One man who knew her claimed that she was different from other women as "she swore, she drank, she wore men's clothing." Calamity Jane was always on the move and worked as a labourer on the Union Pacific and as a mule skinner. In 1872 she joined the army as a scout and over the next few years served under George Crook and Nelson Miles. However, in 1875 she was dismissed after it was discovered she was a woman. Soon after this incident she met Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood, Dakota. Calamity Jane later claimed they were lovers but this story is doubted by those who knew the couple. She was obviously very attached to Hickok and after he was murdered in 1876 she often visited his grave. In 1885 Calamity Jane married Clinton Burke.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WWcalamity.htm
Annie Oakley—Performance Artist
Annie Oakley, the legendary cowgirl sharpshooter ... transforming into fact. The persona of Annie Oakley has inspired plays, musicals, films ... skills. This is not the case with Annie Oakley, for historians do not contest ... Annie Oakley[R]: nature in a bottle[R]. (A Special Section To Gifts & Decorative Accessories). Gifts & Decorative Accessories; 3/1/2002; 388 words; It's hard to believe the Annie Oakley Perfumery began on Renee Gabet ... Gabet. Truly an American original, Annie Oakley perfumery is one of the few companies ... ...
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-OakleyAnnie.html
